Before the high-profile Syrian defector "Ceasar" came forward with evidence of Bashar al-Assad's killing machine, groups of researchers and data scientists have been painstakingly collecting, verifying and analyzing crowdsourced reports from Syria for years, revealing that some evidence of potential war crimes might have been hidden in the data all along.

Hundreds of Syrian rebel fighters are evacuating the city of Homs, the "capital of the revolution," as part of a deal with Assad's government. The evacuation is a symbolic victory for Syria's government, just one month before Assad's likely re-election.

It was never really in doubt, but now it's official. Syria's current president, Bashar al-Assad, announced on Monday that he will be a candidate in the June 3 presidential elections. Assad submitted his nomination to Syria's constitutional court, acc...

As Syria's bloody civil war grinds on, the country is preparing to hold a presidential election in just six weeks. But in a nation where an Assad has ruled since 1971, the question is obvious: How fair will this election be? President Bashar al-Assad...

Pro-Assad hackers in civil war–torn Syria are targeting military opponents using increasingly sophisticated malware and social engineering attacks, a new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Citizen Lab revealed. Internet-based attacks ...

The United Nations released its report on Monday, confirming the usage of chemical weapons in Syria. On Aug. 21, President Bashar al-Assad allegedly unleashed a chemical weapons attack in a small suburb outside Damascus, killing at least 1,429 people...

Secretary of State John Kerry will answer questions about the conflict in Syria and the United States government's response to the alleged chemical attack during a Google Hangout on Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. ET, per an announcement from the Department of ...

In an attempt to convince the U.S. Congress to approve a military strike against Syria and the Bashar al-Assad regime for its alleged use of chemical weapons, the Obama administration is showing disturbing videos of the alleged attack's aftermath to ...

The conflict in Syria started more than two years ago, but it reached a tipping point on Aug. 21 when President Bashar al-Assad's regime allegedly launched a deadly chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus, violating international regulations and i...

On the morning of Aug. 21, strange, awful images began spreading from the eastern suburbs of Damascus to the international media: footage of screaming children, of dead animals and human victims stretched out on the ground, their eyes glazed and pupi...

The White House declassified a four-page report on Friday afternoon, detailing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's usage of chemical weapons in an Aug. 21 attack against rebel fighters. The documents were released as Secretary of State John Kerry addr...

The U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry said that the U.S. government estimates that 1,429 people, including 426 children, were killed in the suspected chemical attack on Damascus on Aug. 21. "This is the indiscriminate, inconceivable horror of chemic...

He may not be using filters, but Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's photos are deceptively framed all the same. Al-Assad, who assumed office in 2000 and has presided over the deaths of 100,000 citizens since Syria’s bloody civil war erupted more than...

On Monday at 9:59 a.m. ET, a Twitter account claiming to represent Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev posted a tweet that eventually sparked a $1 price hike for crude-oil futures. The first tweet from @MiniInterRussia, which has since bee...

Internet traffic has come to a halt in Syria after the government blocked Internet services in an attempt to quell a growing revolt in the Middle Eastern nation. "Starting at 3:35 UTC today, approximately two thirds of all Syrian networks became unre...

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